Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-01-29

Nobody VIII Employ Them, While
Their Big Sisters Earn Large Sa1a-

Nobody VIII Employ Them, while
Their Big Sisters Earn Large Sala.
rfes.
Little women as rule find it hard to get
employment, says the New York Mail. The
shopkeeper picks his female help in the spir-
it that animates him when he makes a dis
play of goods in his windows. command
ing and fine looking woman will sell seal
skin cloak in five cases out of six where a
little body would fail. The big woman can
expatiate more grandly on its merits and be
wrapping it around her and parading before
mirror and show it off in all its perfec-
ton. The little woman may be refined gold,
but there is nothing impressive about her.
Her small stature is misfortune that she
| cannot remedy. She cannot become floor
walker in dry goods store, for she lacks the
| sweep and carriage and the aplomb which
awe the employees and attract the purchasers.
She has great trouble in securing even a
place behind the counter. Her fragility and
tiny size are in the way. She cannot reach
the goods on the top SHELF nor can she re-
turn them after sale is made without climb
| would quench the last spark of dignity left
by nature at her birth. She is cut of place
again in the parlors of fashionable milliner
or dressmaker. You may find her sitting in
a little back room adjoining, stitching away
in bad light and worse atmosphere, with
her knees up to her chin, but you will never
see her in the salesroom. "A small woman
is out of place in a showroom" said the pro-
prietor OF fashion warehouse. 81 have no
use for her there. She cannot sell even a
pattern. People will not go to her. They
will hardly ask her a question. They pass
her by as though she was child and 60 to
saleswoman more stylish and commanding"
The Inner Life of the italian Court.
From the Pail Mall Gazette.l
Count Paul Vasili having made us ac-
quainted with the inner life, the habits and
customs, the morals and vices of the every
select" coteries of London, Berlin, Vienna
st. Petersburg and Madrid, this nineteenth
century Asmodeus has taken the roofs off
the palaces and mansions of Rome, and fur
nished the fortunate Nouvelle Revue with
another series of his "piquantes indiscre
tiops."
'In ''La Societe de Rome the count
draws full length portraits of King Humbert
and Queen Marguerite, remarking prelimina-
rily that to have made constitutional King
of an heir apparent whose warlike progeni-
tors received a purely military education was
nothing less than cruel. King Humbert
CONTINUES Count VASTLY 1s both Piedmont
ese and heir of the house of Savoy. 'sAs
Piemontais he is perfect gentleman, bril-
| liant cavalry officer, serious and grave. de-
testing frivolity. The King has horror of
brag, exaggeration and superlative epithets.
Between the Piedmontese nature and the Ne
apolitan character there is all the difference
of fire and water. His majesty must find it
| hard to put up with certain manifestations
| of his southern subjects The Kings father
| and grandfather had a marvellous acquain-
| tance with the game of party, knew every
move and would rule out of the game one
group for another as easily YOU knock
| down a house of cards. They played ar